Pinatubo offset that 1°F of warming with about 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide. Doing the arithmetic again, sulfur dioxide is, molecule by molecule, more than fifty thousand times more effective at lowering temperatures than carbon dioxide is at raising them.
Pinatubo offset that 1 ° F of warming with about 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide. Doing the arithmetic again, sulfur dioxide is, molecule by molecule, more than fifty thousand times more effective at lowering temperatures than carbon dioxide is at raising them.